[GRASS-user] v.in.ogr driver for .kml

[Matthew Perry]

Jorge,

On 6/4/07, Jorge Echeverri <jorge.echeverri at stein.de> wrote:
>
>  Hi everybody,
>
> Does any body know, whether there is a driver for importing .kml data into
> GRASS?
>
> The supported drivers seem to be ditribution-depending, mine is V. 6.2.1for Linux Suse
> 10.2??
>
> Thanks
>
> Jorge
>

OGR has a driver for KML but it is write-only at this time. So v.in.ogr will
not work with KML.

One alternative would be to convert the KML into a shapefile and import that
into GRASS. I wrote up a rough methodology for this conversion at
http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=3 .

-- 
Matthew T. Perry
http://www.perrygeo.net

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